# Gavaskar and Shastri bring cricket stories to The Great Indian Kapil Show

Published 2026-10-07T09:23:28Z

> Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri join Kapil Sharma for a cricket special of The Great Indian Kapil Show Season 5, with helmet-free memories, a retirement talk and Sunil Grover dressed as Kapil Dev.

Sunil Gavaskar and Ravi Shastri are the guests on the next episode of The Great Indian Kapil Show Season 5, and their chat with host Kapil Sharma is full of old cricket memories and locker-room laughs.

Kapil pulled up photos of the fearsome West Indies side and asked Gavaskar how he faced them without a helmet. The batting great said he took on bowling at close to 150 kmph and joked, "Andar bheje mein kuch nahi tha," that there was nothing inside his brain. He also spoke about what playing for India meant to him, and why he chose to retire at 38.

Navjot Singh Sidhu had a story of his own. Picked for India at 18, he shared a room with Shastri, then the captain, and was asked again and again to step outside after walking in on him unexpectedly.

Sidhu also talked about how the IPL has changed the game. Summers once meant travelling to England to play, he said. Now the league brings players from across the world to India for two months.

In the promo, Shastri says cricketers' wives and girlfriends should be allowed in the stadium. His example is Virat Kohli, who blew Anushka Sharma a flying kiss with his bat after scoring a century while she watched.

Comedian Sunil Grover adds to the fun by turning up dressed as Kapil Dev. Reports say the episode streams on Netflix on October 10 at 8 pm.

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